StringNet search result

Example sentences of "[vb past] that [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	To watch Reutemann on a tennis court , for instance , was painful ; even Hunt , a splendid athlete , really lacked that sort of fluency which expresses real ‘ style ’ ; Jody Scheckter , doing almost anything , was incredibly clumsy .
2	My Working Group recommended that knowledge about language should be an integral part of work in English , not a separate body of knowledge to be added on to the traditional English curriculum .
3	The Transport Act 1968 applied that exclusion to road transport services provided by the newly created STG .
4	Those incomers with whom I discussed class agreed that awareness of class is a typically British trait .
5	He was one of those who led that assembly in prayer on its first full day 's sitting , which it devoted entirely to religious exercises .
6	She probably lived that sort of life herself , Stephen thought .
7	Rank Organisation announced that profit before tax fell from £250.5m to £230.1m in the year to 31 October .
8	Glaxo announced that profit before tax rose by 11% to £1.29bn in the year to 30 June .
9	Albert Fisher announced that profit before tax fell from £89m to £52.1m in the year to 31 August .
10	The Chancellor later announced that evidence of fraud had been uncovered after an investigation into JMB 's banking activities .
11	He announced that growth in GDP during 1989 had totalled 4.6 per cent , a figure higher than many had predicted .
12	Gary had always had a heart for Switzerland and as he read that verse at Spring Harvest he knew that Switzerland was the place .
13	See if we got that bottle of whisky got a bottle of Bells .
14	You should have heard her when she got that craze for Vegetarianism and Bernard Shaw .
15	They packed their bags , sold the house and left me : I got that news in prison .
16	Erm this shows the er affect of radiation against er dose er ten thousand units is , is er fairly le is , is lethal you 'd die within minutes if you got that sort of dose of radiation .
17	Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money .
18	‘ You got that sort of money ? ’ he said , ‘ even if Bert lets it go , he will want a pretty penny for it .
19	They got that sort of marble stuff .
20	BOC reported that profit before tax rose by 10% to £251m in the nine months to 30 June .
21	Smiths Industries reported that profit before tax fell by 7% to £102.2m in the year to 1 August .
22	Economy Minister Andrei Nechayev reported that volume of production had fallen in February by 12.5 per cent , compared with 15 per cent in January .
23	In 1989 Bodenham et al reported that refusal of consent by the coroner was a greater problem than refusal of consent by relatives ( 28% v 17% of failures to retrieve organs ) .
24	By 1871 , Oldham had more cotton-spinning spindles than any country in the world outside the USA and it maintained that position of superiority until 1937 .
25	The real issue with the voters was de Gaulle himself , and the General reinforced that perception by warning that he would resign if the proposed change was rejected or even if it passed by a slim majority .
26	He created that sense of surprise on the ice , going on to become probably the skating world 's leading choreographer .
27	Guido was continuing with his story , and again Ronni caught that flicker of pain .
28	Lekhanya promised that privatization of state enterprises would be the hallmark of his administration , starting with Lesotho Airways and Lesotho Freight Air Transport .
29	A recent investigation by Friends of the Earth found that contamination by alpha particles , including plutonium , was four to five times above official warning levels even several miles inland .
30	Struggling through the cotton wool that seemed to have been stuffed into her brain , Julia found that announcement of savagery almost impossible to believe .